Where does “afabla” come from?
afabla (Ido) comes from English affable, from French affable, from Latin affābilis, from Latin affor, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
afabla (Ido): affable; friendly; kind
Definitions
- affable; friendly; kind
Ancestry of “afabla”, step by step
afabla traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English affable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | affable | Receiving others kindly and conversing with them... |
| 2 | French | affable | affable, amicable, sociable |
| 3 | Latin | affābilis | that can be easily spoken to or accessed; affable, courteous, kind, friendly |
| 4 | Latin | affor | I speak to, address, accost, implore; I fix the... |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Italian affabile
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | affabile | affable |